One of the most frequently encountered issues in Microsoft Outlook 2016 is the disappearance of the Folder & Navigation panes. The Internet is flooded with similar queries and users are looking for a fix. There are no set patterns and a user can encounter this anytime, especially during launching the application. Sometimes if you forcibly quit Outlook though a hard boot or killing Outlook.exe from the task manager reproduces the problem. The good news is that there is a solution to this problem and it’s easy to fix. In this post, I am going to talk about how to fix Outlook 2016 folder navigation pane disappearance issues.

Microsoft releases all the latest services packs for Office applications. You can find the complete list from the Office website. The August 2016 update for Outlook has supposedly resolved this issue. You can find the August 2016 update details here. At the time of writing this blog post, we already have the latest cumulative updates here. Users are recommended to download only the latest update for the Microsoft Office website.

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